High-speed reel for silk.



No. 731,765. PATENTED JUNE 23, 19 05. E. FOUGEIRQL.

HIGH SPEED REEL FOR SILK.

APPLICATION FILED JUNE 20, 1902. H0 MODEL. 2 SHEETS-SHEET 1..

Z M tmmwa k No. 731,765. PATENTED JUNE 23, v1903.. E. FOUGEIROL.

HIGH SPEED REEL FOR SILK.

AYPLIOATION FILED JUNE 20, 1902. N0 MODEL. v 2 SHEETS-SHEET 2 v z //s WYT/VESSES:

i thread during the reeling; but this slow-speed a carry out the two operations simultaneously.

' Patented June 23, 1 903.

PATENT OFFICE;

ED OUARD FOUGEIROL,

OF oLLIEREs, FRANCE.

HlGHV-SPEED REEL FOR SILK.

srEor'FIcATIoN formingpart of Letters Patent No. 731,765, dated June 23, 1903.

Application filed June 20, 1902.

To LLZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, EDOUARD FOUGEIROL, a citizen of the Republic of France, residing in Ollieres, Ardeche, France, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Ma.-

chines for Effecting the Reeling of Silk at taneously by interposing cleaners or purg- I and lost in the. skein.

ers of leather or cloth in the path of the cleaning was so imperfect that it did not dispense with a second cleaning operation. Now that the speed of reeling has been increased to the greatest possible extent by reason of the necessity of lowering the sale-price man ufacturers have been obliged to abandon the attempt to carry out the two operations simultaneously, because as the reels turn rap idly should the thread break the momentum acquired by the reels causes them to make a number of rotations after the breakage has occurred, so that the thread first becomes wound the wrong way upon the reel and is then dragged by the reel from the cleaner Thus it is necessary to find the broken endwhenever a breakage occurs, this being a difficult operation and one which is liable to cause waste. In consequence manufacturers have-now ceased to I have already, in 1892, invented and pat:

ented a special method of high-speed reeling with a fixed reel, and I then suggested that it would be possible by employing this method of reeling to carry out the cleaning at the same time, if experience showed that this was in itself practical; but I did not then indicate means for carrying this out. Now the method of reeling which I then, designed presented numerous drawbacks which I had not at the time foundthe means of overcoming. The reasons which caused me to cease employing it are as follows: First, the glass eye through which the thread was made to pass had to be situated upon the prolongation of $erial No. 112,410. (No model.)

' the shaft of the reel at a distance from the hand of the operator, and it was fixed, so that it was difficult to pass thelthread through it. Second, the cast-iron part which carried the reel was fixed and the spindle which passed through it to impart the motion to the rotate ing bell-shaped hood over which the thread was led on leaving the reel carried atone extremity the said rotating hood and at the other two pulleys, one loose and the other fixed, in order to enable the hood to be stopped when desired. It was necessary to stop the hood at each breakage of the thread in order to look for the broken end, because with its semicircular section and cutting edges it was liable to injure the operator, and, moreover, its width hindered the operator in his search for the broken end. With this arrangement when the reeling of a skein was finished and it was necessary to replace it by another it was necessary to perform the following operations: The winged nut which secured the rotating hood upon the spindle of the reel had to be unscrewed. Then the hood had to be removed, and then the reel, this rendering it necessary to leave sufficient space between each reel and the next one, because in manipulating the hood, and especially the empty reel, which is large and inconvenient to bandle, there was risk of catching the skein or the driving-belt of the next reel. When another skein had been placed on the reel, it was necessary to go through all these operations again in the opposite order, and the difficulty of putting the parts back into place was still greater than that of taking them apart. Besides the difficulty and the length of time taken up by these operations they involved rapid wear of the screws and nuts and necessitated too large a space for each reel, and under the action of shocks and concussions, which almost unavoidably occur, the slightest scratch on the hood often caused breakage of the thread.

In my previous reeling-machine I preserved the form of the old reeling-machines, with two rows of reels facing each other, the bobbins being carried by horizontal shafts. This does not allow of attaining a sufficient speed of reeling. The spindle of one bobbin being placed just above the shaft of the reel, the

thread afterleavingthe hood and becoming directed toward the right to pass through the glass eye .was obliged to pass up toward the left, thus passing around the glass eye for more than half its circumference, and thus increasing its tension before passing to the bobbin.

The present application for patent has for its subject a novel reeling-machine with vertical spindles, which not onlyallows of effecting thereeling at a high speed, but also permits of unitingin a practical way the two operations of reeling and cleaning.

My improved machine is represented in the annexed drawings.

Figure 1 is a side elevation, Fig. 2 a partial front elevation, and Fig. 3 a partial plan. Fig. 4 is a vertical section, on a larger scale, of the bobbin and its spindle, showing the preferred form of mounting. Fig. 5 is an enlarged detail view thereof. Fig. 6 is a horizontal section of Figs. 4 and 5. Figs. 7 and 8 are sectional views of details and show different devices for driving the spindle of the hood.

The skeins to be reeled are placed upon the reels A. The threads are reeled by passing over rotating hoods or disks B. Thence each thread is directed into a central eye, of glass, porcelain or polished metalsuch, for example, as the wire eye a, situated in the prolongation of the shaft of the reel. On leaving this eye a the thread passes to the bobbin 0, which is mounted upon a vertical spindle. These bobbins with vertical spindles can be 5 fitted or mounted in any suitable way. I prefer to use the form shown in detail in Figs. 4, 5, and 6. The spindle proper, b, is surrounded by a sleeve 0, having a pulley d, which is driven by a small belt 6, set in motion bya pullcyf. The lower end of the spindle b rests in a stepbearing g, which forms part of a vertical vtube guided in the tubular support it of the spindle. In order that the step or bearing shall be always held above the bottom of the support, its tubular portion has shoulders t' at its upper part, which project radially and fit in slots formed in the supporting-tube h. In this way the tube of the step or bearing is suspended and at the same time prevented from turning in the support in which it is guided.

The use on my machine of vertical spindles, which employment allows of effecting the reeling of the silk at very high speed, renders it possible to arrange or combine various parts of the machine in the manner which I will now proceed to describe.

It will first of all be understood that the central eye a is not, as usual, fixed, but is placed eye a near to the circumference of the reel; in-

fact, quite up to its periphery. The eye returns automatically to its normal position in the prolongation of the spindle of the reel when the operator has passed the end of the thread to be reeled into the eye, this eye being returned to place and retained in such position preferably byits own weight. Each reel,with its corresponding hood and the spindle Z of this latter, is carried by a support D, which instead of being permanently fixed upon the upright E or frame of the machine is movable on a horizontal slide F. It will be observed from the plan Fig. 3 that each slide extends across the whole width of the machine and that its opposite extremities serve as a guide for two reels situated opposite each other, the reels being alternately arranged with respect to each other. The slides F are of straight rectangular section,

and the reel-carrying part has a sleeve or 001- lar provided with a hole, which is likewise rectangular, of the same section as that of the bar or slide. The supportD is prolonged by means of a turned and bored hubm, which carries the reel A. In this bored hub m the shaft which carries the rotating hood B turns. This shaft receives its motion from the side opposite to the hood, for example, by means of a driving cord or belt passing over the grooved pulleys n 0. The pulley p of the shaft Z is br0ught.into contact with the pulley 0, and the driving of the hood of the reel is effected by friction between 0 and p. The reel-carrying support is fixed on its slide in position to maintain 0 and p in contact by means of a set-screw a". Any other suitable means of fixing may be employed for this purpose.

In Fig. 7 I have shown in plan the spindle of the hood as driven by friction by the pulley 1), this arrangement being shown in elevation in Fig. 1. In the plan Fig. 3 I-have shown another way of driving the hood of the reel, this arrangement comprising two pulleys of equal diameters q q, these being arranged parallel to each other, but on independent spindles. One of these pulleys q is fixed on the spindle Z of the hood, while the other pulley q is loose upon a shaft fixed to the support of the machine. quired to move the reel and its hood upon the slide-bar, the cord or belt is passed on to the loose pulley q. The combination of reel, hood, and support is then free and can be shifted on the slide-bar. When the reel has been returned to place and it is desiredto effect the reeling of the silk by rotatingthe hood, the cord or belt is shifted from the loose pulley g on to the pulley g on the spindle of the hood. Instead. of transmitting the movement to the spindle of the reeling-hood by a pulley o, againstwhich friction is exerted by a pulley p, I can adopt the arrangement shown in Fig. 8, in which the cord or belt passes over two pulleys o 0, carried bya single arm 1 pivoting at z, and over the pulley p of the spindle of the hood, which is driven When it is reby friction by the portion of the cord or belt which extends between the two pulleys 0'. In this way a more supple drive can be obtained than the drive by direct friction shown in Fig. 1.

The slide arrangement which I have designed for supporting the reel and its accesseries allows of a very simple and easy manipulation of the reel. By holdingwith the hand the complete reel-carrying part entirely fitted-that is to say,with the reel and skein, the hood, and its small friction-pulley-it is only necessary to place it on the extremity of the slide at a distance of about forty centimeters in front of the position which it has to occupy in working. Itis then shielded from all possibility of shock or concussion against the neighboring parts of the machine. As soon as the sleeve or collar has become engaged with the slide it only remains to push the part along the slide untilit is in place, where it is fixed by tightening the set-screw 'r. In this movement the reel always remains in the same vertical plane and is not exposed to liability of striking the parts near it or of I being struck by them. By means of this arrangement I am enabled to bring the reels of a row closer together and to stay the reels of the two rows without danger of shock, thus saving a large amount of space. This arrangement, moreover, allows of readily placing a fresh skein on an empty reel without dismounting or removing any part of the machine. It is, in fact, only necessary to withdraw the reel-carrying part from the slide. It is easy when the reel-carrying part is thus withdrawn to place a skein upon the reel without interference of the hood by passing the skein on from the side at which thesmall friction-pulley is situated. It is even possible byhaving a number of reels and several changes of hoods and reel-carriers to place the skeins of silk on their reels in advance. By this means while an empty reel is being removed from the slide with one hand it can be replaced by a fresh reel having a skein thereon with the other hand, thus avoiding any loss .of time. i

The hood B is preferably made with a sheet of zinc in one piece turned up peripherally, this being more open than the old copper hoods. It is formed or provided with a turned- ,in polished bead, which cannot injure the hand of the operator and which shuts in or incloses the parts less than with the old styles machine and, further, allows of the attendant finding the thread during working without stopping the hood.

The arrangement which I have adopted for supporting the reels and their hoods by means of slides allows, asshown by Figs. 1 and 3, of

arranging the reels of onerow alternately in the spaces between the reels of' the other row and of reducing the width of the machine.

1 cloth cleaner dles, which being vertical insure a sufficiently rapid winding of the skein-threads.

It may be further remarked that as the vertical spindles occupy much less space than horizontal spindles and are not bound down to occupying a determined position in order to receive their motion, but can, on the contrary, be readily shifted I am enabled, as shown in the drawings, to place the spindle which winds the thread from each reel almost above the next reel situated to the right. The result is that the thread coming from the central eye after having passed over the hood traveling from left to right leaves this central eye and passes up again from left to right. Consequently this thread does not embrace the central eye for more than half its circumference, but, on the contrary, surrounds it for less than half its circumference, thus diminishing the tension of the thread and reducing the number of breakages. Between the central eye and the bobbin the reeled thread passes into a first cleaner composed of two steel plates 8 t, covered with cloth and held pressed together by any suitable means. The thread issuing from this passes into the steel cleaner u. The two cleaners-via, the cloth cleanerand the steel cleaner-are in one and the same plane, this being tangential to the bobbin on which the thread winds.

The two adjacent blades of two consecm tive steel cleaners of a row are connected by a semi-ellipse a2, constituted by a brass wire which serves as a reeled. between the two steel blades, which effect the cleaning operation, so that the thread. cannot escape this operation.

I claim- 1. In a reeling-machine, the combination with a reel, a cooperating rotating hood,,and a driving-pulley for said hood, of a slide, a support carrying said reel, hood and pulley and movable on said slide, a driving means for said pulley, and means for holding said support in position with said pulley in. engagement with its driving means.

2. In a reeling-machine, the combination with a reel, of an eye through which the thread passes after leaving the reel, said eye being normally adjacent to the center of said reel, and being movable to a position adjacent to the edge of the reel.

In Witness whereof I have hereunto signed my name, this 31st day of May, 1902, in the presence of two subscribing witnesses.

EDOUARD FOUGEIROL. Witnesses:

EDW'ARD P. MACLEAN, GABRIEL BELLIARD.

guide for the thread being i The thread is thus compelled to pass. 

